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I just ate a new SmartOne Chicken Enchiladas Monterey, and it was pretty awesome. That is all. Have a good weekend!

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A great day?

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update

these guys ran some xp benchmarks on Mac hardware

on mac wiki exists to share tips on loading XP on Apple hardware

The celebration does not stop!

Wired News: Apple Ads … travel, through the swirling mists, of time.

Heady days…

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the mac rumors site i read is quite silent as to whether apple has anything special planned product-wise for their 30th birthday, which is tomorrow.

although an intel iBook is inevitable (and welcome), i dunno… not very ground-breaking or fun.

30 years, it should be something revolutionary.

how about a $200 price-reduction in this thing so that someone may actually buy one? while saving $200 is technically fun, i’m still not feeling it.

should be something revolutionary… Video iPod and HD feature movies on iTMS are just evolutions at this point.

How about actually adding 5.1 audio capability to Quicktime Player? Certainly rational and long-overdue… but still lacking the revolutionary element.

Wait… I know. I know.

### the Mac mini stack, or iStack mini

An expandable version of the Mac mini, that can be seamlessly scaled by adding additionally mini “nodes” via a high-bandwidth integrated backplane.

This architecture will replace what we currently know as the PowerMac. It’s called the iStack.

Nodes, which all feature CPU and RAM in addition to core I/O (USB/Firewire), are optionally-configured to provide additional video, storage capacity and ancillary I/O (digital audio).

So, for about $1300 a bucks a node, or so, after the time you’ve bought like four nodes and stacked them together, you have:

1. 4x Core Duo CPUs (8 cores total)
2. 8GB of RAM
3. 8x firewire busses / 8x USB 2.0 ports
4. 4x 200GB hard drives that can be striped (via hardware) with RAID 5 (yeah… they’ll have to get bigger hard drives in there somehow…)
5. some digital I/O capability for music and whatever
6. 2 or 3 monitor ports…

… in the slightly goofy form factor of four minis stacked on top each other.

I’d buy this. It’s clearly the way.

radically crude artist’s conception

v2, still crude artist’s conception

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Great story from Pitchfork about mad and beautiful genius Daniel Johnston and the new documentary about him.

everybody respects the dead //
but they love the friendly ghost…
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The Apple 30th birthday celebration continues unabated on rds.com… through the Wired Apple OS interface gallery I discovered the power of a virtual Mac SE.

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Quality. Look back… look back.

A fav:

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
– Jobs, on Mac OS X’s Aqua user interface (Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000)

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To the surprise of approximately no one, Lisa Tucker got voted off American Idol tonight.

Marginally surprising was McPheever’s appearance in the Bottom Three. The experience, by the look on her face, was treating her most unkind.

What’s in store for thePheever.com now? Will she, like Lisa, lose her mojo after her first skirmish with public shaming, and enter a power-spiral before ramming into the Salt Flats hardpan at Mach 3?

I think not. We’ll see her with game face full on from now, choosing the right songs and ramming them in America’s face (which will be screaming for “more!” the whole while), up until her inevitable coronation as our Fifth (and one of our finest) American Idols.

Primary lameness of the night: McPhee’s appearance in the bottom three over redneck noise-ist Bucky.

Secondary lameness: Remaining contestants walking out on stage during Lisa’s farewell song. I was disappointed to see them lift her up on their collective shoulder.

Lisa - I know you’re only sixteen, and in one week I’ll be (2*16)+1. I know it hurts now. So you had a bad day. It’s ok. You’re still going to rock the house. My only advice: a) get the mojo; b) keep the mojo, at all costs.

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I’d probably find this less funny if I had kids. But currently I find it very funny.

What’s better is the video interview at CNN.com, which is home to the “Child Conquers the Claw” slug. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find permalinks for any of CNN’s video content.

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A fun trip (for huge nerds) down the memory lane of Apple user interface.

I guess I’m only a third-rate Apple fanboy, having personally used only 6 of the 12 interfaces shown.

Although I never owned an Apple II, I did spent a lot of time playing with my cousin’s growing up. I’m disappointed to find Wired didn’t consider Aztec an interface unto itself.

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